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The San Francisco Standard
Text • Madeline Taub

‘Choked out by landlord greed,’ boutique SoMa steakhouse closes after just over a year

Chef Marc Zimmerman says Superprime Steakhouse could have been a staple in the city but couldn’t continue after the landlord doubled the rent.

The San Francisco Standard
Text • John Shea

Too many shortstops? Finally, the Giants have a good problem

Buster Posey acquired Marcelo Mayer, Joniel Hernández, and Kaeden Kent at the trade deadline to supplement a pipeline headlined by Josuar González and Luis Hernández.

The San Francisco Standard
Text • Riley Ramirez

The battle over People’s Park is over. Berkeley hasn’t yet kept its promise 

Behind the shipping containers, a $312 million dorm is nearly done, while the building meant to house those it displaced has not broken ground.

The San Francisco Standard
Text • Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez

San Francisco balanced its budget. So why does the fiscal crisis remain?

Mayor Daniel Lurie only took a bite out of the city’s projected $1 billion structural deficit.

Latest articles from Crooks and Liars
Text • NewsHound Ellen

RFK Jr Ripped Off Thousands Of Immigrant Kids To Reward Trump Crony

A small MAGA law firm that specializes in “complex environmental” matters just got a $150 million federal contract earmarked for legal aid to immigrant children. That is after the Trump administration let a contract with a very qualified legal network expire because its att...

Latest articles from Crooks and Liars
Text • Andrea Thompson

Max Miller Is Growing More Manic And Unhinged As His Glass House Shatters Around Him

Ohio Republican Rep. Max Miller appears to be falling into an almost manic state of desperation as his house of cards rapidly falls, exposing him for the disgusting abuser he truly is. As Miller's ex-wife, Emily Moreno, comes forward with more and more increasingly sickeni...

Latest articles from Crooks and Liars
Text • NewsHound Ellen

NM Suing Todd Blanche For Obstructing Epstein Investigation

As I’ve previously written, Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch in New Mexico was mentioned more than 13,000 times in the Epstein files. Yet Todd Blanche, on the precipice of being confirmed as attorney general by spineless Republicans, has refused to provide New Mexico with the ...

Latest articles from Crooks and Liars
Text • Chris capper Liebenthal

Drinking Buddies Gotta Stick Together

On Monday evening, Krash Patel, the googly-eyed head of the FBI, became the 10th member of the Trump crime syndicate to travel to Western Wisconsin to appear with Rep Drunken Van Orden as he tries desperately to cling to his congressional seat. The reason for the trip was n...

McSweeney’s
Text • McKayley Gourley

Things I Hope People Would Say at My Funeral

“How sure are we that she’s dead? Should we double-check just to be safe? I know for a fact that she would not want to be buried alive.” “My dog wasn’t chill with anyone, but he was chill with her.” “She was never weird in conversation, and even if she was, I have no recolle...

Electrek
Text • Fred Lambert

Tesla starts Megapack 3 production with 28% more energy per unit

Tesla has started building its next-generation Megapack 3 grid battery, with the first units rolling off the line at the company’s new Megafactory in Brookshire, Texas.

The plant went from groundbreaking to production in 16 months and is designed to build 50 GWh of Megapack 3 a year. That’s the version Tesla says packs roughly 28% more energy into the same footprint as the Megapack it replaces.

daveverse
Text • Dave Winer

Like a lot of other people, I want to know where Bluesky is headed, and I learned a lot about that in this podcast interview with Bluesky’s new CEO, Toni Schneider. We have crossed paths in tech, but this is the first time I’ve heard him speak at length. They have a business model in […]

Scripting News Valid
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Like a lot of other people, I want to know where Bluesky is headed, and I learned a lot about that in this podcast interview with Bluesky's new CEO, Toni Schneider. We have crossed paths in tech, but this is the first time I've heard him speak at length. They have a business model in mind, sounds something like Substack, which is probably a good idea. Their value is in the many millions of users they have. Highly recommend this podcast if you want to hear the story direct from the CEO.

Techdirt
Text • Karl Bode

Trump Admin Hijacked $21 Billion In Taxpayer Money Earmarked For Internet Access And Then Went Mute

I’ve written a few times now about how the Trump administration hijacked a $42.5 billion broadband investment fund included in the 2021 infrastructure bill, stripped away requirements that the resulting broadband be fairly deployed and affordable, and instead redirected billions of dollars to Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos in exchange for slower, more expensive satellite […]

Ars Technica - All content
Text • Scharon Harding

AI isn’t enough to protect social media communities from AI

AI isn’t enough to protect social media communities from AI

Why humans need to moderate humans.

Prison Journalism Project
Text • Da’Shae Breeze

Why Prisons Should Let Trans Women Dress the Way They Want

A closeup photo of a blue eye surrounded by vaguely blue and pink makeup.

“They’re going to lock you up for wearing those clothes.” People tell me this every day about my custom outfits, which range from skintight fleece pants to a gray canteen shirt with a Celtic cross design made from blanket material.

The post Why Prisons Should Let Trans Women Dress the Way They Want appeared first on Prison Journalism Project.

Prison Journalism Project
Text • Da’Shae Breeze

Trans Women React to Missouri’s Hormone Therapy Ban in Prisons

A photo illustration shows a syringe on a transgender pride flag.

On April 10, an older transgender woman at my prison, Patricia Trimble, affectionately referred to as Mama P., informed other trans women and me that we might soon lose our access to hormone therapy.

The post Trans Women React to Missouri’s Hormone Therapy Ban in Prisons appeared first on Prison Journalism Project.

Berkeleyside
Text • Karen Nguyen Vo and Andrew Gilbert

Around Berkeley: Hike to Grizzly Peak, women in tattooing, learn Irish dancing

Other events include a picnic for World Breastfeeding Day, an exhibition of unfinished artwork and a late-night vinyl hangout.

Political Wire
Text • Taegan Goddard

Xi Flexes Expanding Legal Arsenal to Warn Trump

“China’s latest barrage of countermeasures against the U.S. drew on an expanding legal arsenal, demonstrating Beijing’s growing capacity to retaliate while warning Washington against further tech curbs before Xi Jinping’s expected visit next month,” Bloomberg reports. “The speed and breadth of the action, revealed in a volley of five statements released one week after the […]

TPM – Talking Points Memo
Text • John Light

GOP Immediately Turns the Islamophobia Dial All the Way Up; El-Sayed Hits Back

Introducing America to ‘Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed’ It’s not at all surprising, but it was nonetheless quick: With the Michigan primary...

TPM – Talking Points Memo
Text • Casey Michel

We Actually Know Exactly How We Can Address Trump’s Corruption Spree

This book excerpt is part of Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. For most of human history, trying to...